The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
7:30pm
In Person
Near the end of four months of filming in Kansas City, the Fab Five stars of Netflix’ infectious reality series Queer Eye sit down at the Cen...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
6:30pm
Few military battles have matched the concentrated ferocity of the three-day fight between U.S. and Japanese forces in November 1943 for a sandy slive...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 11, 2018
2:00pm
Join us this Veterans Day for a powerful and poignant commemoration of World War I that integrates live music, dance, poetry, and prose....
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
6:30pm
The 2018 Art in the Loop Project: KC Plays!, a curated outdoor exhibition, wraps up with a reception, illustrated re...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers perish...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of The Library Book, her acclaimed account of most devastating library fire in our country’s history, author...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 25, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusad...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 21, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940, author...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
6:30pm
As the U.S. Supreme Court begins a new session this week, constitutional law scholar Frank Colucci assesses the transition in it...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin separates fiction from sometimes terrifying fact about the seafar...